rebrascora
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7.7 for me on Saturday morning
4.4 yesterday and another 4.4 for me today. Both of which needed a sour/fizzy worm (Lidl have been out of JBs for the last month but quite enjoying my change of hypo treatment) an hour or so before, to get me there.
Quite surprised to have consistent readings 2 days running considering how different those days and evening meals were!
@Robin Saturday went reasonably well thanks but having set off in plenty of time and had a smooth traffic free journey up there we could not find the signs for the event and ended up travelling into the visitor attraction side of the House. People kept trying to direct us to get round to the deer park at the rear, where we needed to be, but we hit locked gates and almost no room to turn round each time we followed their advice and with a very long trailer on the back it was no fun trying to reverse along narrow tree lined garden tracks. I had to keep getting out and doing an Annika Rice running ahead to see if the gate we could see at the other end of the tree lined avenue would give us access to the horse boxes we could see beyond it, but no, they were padlocked! By the time we eventually got to where we needed to be, the entries for our class were going into the ring! The judge said he would hold the class for us for 10 mins but in that time we had to take the carriage off the trailer, attach shafts, strap on cushions, lamps, umbrella basket get horse out, harness him up, get changed ourselves, put him to and head into the show ring and I was already stressed to death before we started. By the time we got in there the judging had already started and no time to warm the horse up. Needless to say we got "wooden spoon" position but to be honest we can't compete with the money's worth of vehicles and paint jobs on the gigs that the other entries have and I find it all a bit demoralizing but that is what showing is about.... having the best of the best and having it in immaculate condition, whereas our turnout is a country vehicle which gets used rather than something which is kept under covers and just comes out to go in the show ring a few times each summer. We were also entered to do the Concours d'Elegance which is supposed to be judged on the orginality of the turnout and involved a lovely park drive through the grounds with some absolutely breathtaking views across the Firth of Forth and little meandering tracks through the gardens and tree lined avenues which we had earlier failed to navigate with the car and trailer, before a presentation on the gravel parade ground in front of the house which was just "WOW!" but unfortunately I wasn't able to get a photo. They award a winner but don't place everyone else for that and we didn't win but I thoroughly enjoyed it and I am pretty sure Zak did too.
Finally we did the Attelage d'Tradition which is again supposed to be original vehicles and you are judged on presentation, then you do some difficulties involving picking up a glass of champagne from a stand, driving 20 yards one handed and putting it down on another stand unspilled. Driving a short distance whilst keeping the wheels within a 9 inch tramline marked out with ropes, halt and salute, 20 m one handed circle, driving the horse over a large square of carpet and then driving through a small square of cones and then reversing back through them and then finally driving a course of cones, all of which was great fun. We came about mid way in that competition. Met some lovely friendly people whilst we were up there and Zak was good as gold. I got very excited about being gifted some Scottish "tablet" (presented to all the competitors) until I remembered I am diabetic and that stuff is pretty much pure sugar! That said, I managed to have a mild hypo at Ian's yesterday afternoon so I treated it with half a chunk before he guzzles the rest.... I was very restrained and even took the smaller half ..... which promptly took me up to 7.7 and the sweetness made my eyes water! Yummy though! Anyway, it was a very long day (over 7 hours travelling and animals to do before and after), and a bit stressful at times but some bits of it were really enjoyable and mostly a very positive experience.... And the car got us there and back without incident, so that was a huge relief in itself considering it is over 20 years old and pulling a lot of weight up some pretty big inclines.
4.4 yesterday and another 4.4 for me today. Both of which needed a sour/fizzy worm (Lidl have been out of JBs for the last month but quite enjoying my change of hypo treatment) an hour or so before, to get me there.
Quite surprised to have consistent readings 2 days running considering how different those days and evening meals were!
@Robin Saturday went reasonably well thanks but having set off in plenty of time and had a smooth traffic free journey up there we could not find the signs for the event and ended up travelling into the visitor attraction side of the House. People kept trying to direct us to get round to the deer park at the rear, where we needed to be, but we hit locked gates and almost no room to turn round each time we followed their advice and with a very long trailer on the back it was no fun trying to reverse along narrow tree lined garden tracks. I had to keep getting out and doing an Annika Rice running ahead to see if the gate we could see at the other end of the tree lined avenue would give us access to the horse boxes we could see beyond it, but no, they were padlocked! By the time we eventually got to where we needed to be, the entries for our class were going into the ring! The judge said he would hold the class for us for 10 mins but in that time we had to take the carriage off the trailer, attach shafts, strap on cushions, lamps, umbrella basket get horse out, harness him up, get changed ourselves, put him to and head into the show ring and I was already stressed to death before we started. By the time we got in there the judging had already started and no time to warm the horse up. Needless to say we got "wooden spoon" position but to be honest we can't compete with the money's worth of vehicles and paint jobs on the gigs that the other entries have and I find it all a bit demoralizing but that is what showing is about.... having the best of the best and having it in immaculate condition, whereas our turnout is a country vehicle which gets used rather than something which is kept under covers and just comes out to go in the show ring a few times each summer. We were also entered to do the Concours d'Elegance which is supposed to be judged on the orginality of the turnout and involved a lovely park drive through the grounds with some absolutely breathtaking views across the Firth of Forth and little meandering tracks through the gardens and tree lined avenues which we had earlier failed to navigate with the car and trailer, before a presentation on the gravel parade ground in front of the house which was just "WOW!" but unfortunately I wasn't able to get a photo. They award a winner but don't place everyone else for that and we didn't win but I thoroughly enjoyed it and I am pretty sure Zak did too.
Finally we did the Attelage d'Tradition which is again supposed to be original vehicles and you are judged on presentation, then you do some difficulties involving picking up a glass of champagne from a stand, driving 20 yards one handed and putting it down on another stand unspilled. Driving a short distance whilst keeping the wheels within a 9 inch tramline marked out with ropes, halt and salute, 20 m one handed circle, driving the horse over a large square of carpet and then driving through a small square of cones and then reversing back through them and then finally driving a course of cones, all of which was great fun. We came about mid way in that competition. Met some lovely friendly people whilst we were up there and Zak was good as gold. I got very excited about being gifted some Scottish "tablet" (presented to all the competitors) until I remembered I am diabetic and that stuff is pretty much pure sugar! That said, I managed to have a mild hypo at Ian's yesterday afternoon so I treated it with half a chunk before he guzzles the rest.... I was very restrained and even took the smaller half ..... which promptly took me up to 7.7 and the sweetness made my eyes water! Yummy though! Anyway, it was a very long day (over 7 hours travelling and animals to do before and after), and a bit stressful at times but some bits of it were really enjoyable and mostly a very positive experience.... And the car got us there and back without incident, so that was a huge relief in itself considering it is over 20 years old and pulling a lot of weight up some pretty big inclines.
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Just overshot a HS!